Proton Transfer Reaction - Mass Spectrometers

We offer solutions for online VOC monitoring and real-time trace gas detection. Robust, fast, accurate and extremely sensitive we satisfy the highest claims for the world's best scientists. Have a look at our PTR-MS product range and find your instrument!

ioniTOF Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

Benefit from our unique modular TOF-MS systems, purpose-built for your experimental set-up, from entry-level to high-resolution. Get the analyzer and expert help you need for your research or equipment development project.

SRI-MS is a new technology where the user can select from different reagent ions for chemical ionization direct injection mass spectrometry, only available from IONICON.
Our expertise as the world's leading PTR-MS company lead to the development of new ionization technologies currently including H3O+, O2+, NO+, Kr+ or Xe+ as selective reagent ions.

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"We use a PTR-TOF-MS to study the chemistry and emission of VOCs focusing on wildfires and land-atmosphere exchange. The custom-built instrument allows us to carry out the trace gas concentration and flux measurements on a research aircraft and on the ground with outstanding response time, mass resolution, and sensitivities."

"The IONICON PTR-TOF-MS is a recognized gold standard in the trace gas analysis of complex mixtures. Therefore, we use it as calibration and validation device for our novel gas sensors for breath analysis."

"We are studying VOCs and their chemistry in the atmosphere. These VOCs from various sources are often present in very low concentrations therefore we need an instrument with a low detection limit. One important part of our research is the biosphere atmosphere interaction. We measure e.g. plants emissions. Plants emit a wide variety of VOCs which demands an analyzer able to cover a broad mass range in a short period of time. The IONICON PTR-TOF 4000 allows for simultaneous measurements of many VOCs with high sensitivity at high temporal resolution."

The proprietary TRU-E/N™ method for utmost quantification accuracy Founded by the inventors of Proton-Transfer-Reaction – Mass Spectrometry more than 20 years ago, IONICON has always been renowned for absolutely precise control of the ion chemistry during chemical ionization. For IONICON this fact is still true even after the introduction of Radio Frequency (RF) components for focusing […]

Indoor Air Quality

Room-air VOC detection and monitoring

Real-Time measurements of VOCs causing smells or adverse health effects.
Monitoring of chemical contamination related to the Sick Building Syndrome. Sensory impact on passengers in aircraft cabins, cars (VIAQ) and workers in offices or family homes.

Petrochemical Applications

Automotive

Real-time vehicle exhaust analysis

Monitoring exhaust gas from combustion engines, emitting a large number of different compounds and with rapidly changing concentrations due to variations in operating conditions, necessitates an instrument that measures in real-time and with high sensitivity – an IONICON PTR-TOFMS.

Biotechnology

On-line Monitoring of Bioprocesses

IONICON PTR-MS systems can analyze trace gas concentrations of volatile metabolites in the off-gas of bio-pharmaceutical fermentations in real-time. This highly relevant process related information can be used for on-line process monitoring and process control.